Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
STEVE MARTINThere’s someone out there for everyone – even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
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Some people have a way with words, and other people; oh, uh, not have way.
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I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it’s going to work. And then you get the response. It’s great when it’s good.
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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It’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
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I could never be a woman, ’cause I’d just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
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You have to get comfortable with your work, you really have to know what you’re doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
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I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
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I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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There’s no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
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Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
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